Motivational Quotes

Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

- Anderson, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Truth

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

26.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

28.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Anderson, Sherwood